Makes sense. A bass cut like the one I linked to makes a coil split almost redundant. Single coil tones without the volume drop. Also a great way to cut the overdrive as reducing bass seems to clean up the drive as well.
Never really experimented much with an EQ pedal, but having one in front of the amp may yield the same effect and be much easier to implement.
Yep, I use my EQ pedal in front of the amp. And the reason (besides preferring to avoid amplifier loops that cause their own sets of problems) is that I can use the EQ to impact what parts of the frequency range hit the preamp section. There they affect the frequencies at which the amp breaks up, they precede the tone stack, etc.
I’ve posed a zillion demos of my pedal setup using the EQ pedal I use (Pettyjohn Filter), and I won’t bother everyone by re-posting that, but yeah, I never play without it any more.
I not only use it to shape what’s coming out of the guitar, but shelving off a little bottom end, or tweaking the top end, allows me to tailor the speaker cabinet to the room better. It allows me to tailor frequencies at turnover points that aren’t necessarily the same as those in the tone stack. So it’s a great thing to have on hand.
Since I’m NOT a believer in extremely close miking while recording - I much prefer the mic at least a foot back to capture some of the tone in the room, and I almost always also use a room mic, so what I record sounds like what I dial in - being able to really tweak the very top and bottom of the frequency response curve is important.
But yes, I also use it to tweak what I want to hear out of the guitar. If anyone’s desirous of putting up with my craptastic playing long enough to hear how an EQ pedal works with my guitars/amps in the mix, let me know.